TAIYUAN: Death toll has risen to 26 after a fire broke out Thursday morning at a building of a coal mine company in north China’s Shanxi Province, according to rescuers. The fire ripped through the second floor of the five-story building located in Lishi District of Lyuliang City. Rescue efforts are underway, according to local authorities. More than 60 people …

BEIJING: Against the picturesque backdrop of the Filoli Estate in the U.S. state of California on Wednesday, a high-stakes meeting captured the world’s attention. In a significant rendezvous, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, have had their first vis-a-vis sit-down since their handshake in Bali, Indonesia, last year. The two heads of state delved into strategic …

BEIJING: An article on handling important relationships in the enhancement of ecological conservation by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will be published on Thursday. The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year’s 22nd issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship …

BEIJING: The first phase of the eastern route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project has benefited more than 68 million people in east China’s Shandong Province in its decade-long operation, China South-to-North Water Diversion Co., Ltd. said Wednesday. It has transferred 6.14 billion cubic meters of water to Shandong since it began supplying water in November 2013, according to the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping is in San Francisco for a high-stakes summit with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, seeking the way forward for the strained ties between the world’s two largest economies. It is a coincidence that San Francisco was the first stop of Xi’s maiden trip to the United States decades ago. In the spring of 1985, Xi, …

BEIJING: China’s retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country’s consumption strength, climbed at a faster pace of 7.6 percent year on year in October, official data showed Wednesday. The increase, the fastest since May this year, accelerated from a rise of 5.5 percent registered in September, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to …

BEIJING: The overall rigid demand for residential housing and the needs of those who wish to improve their housing conditions in China remained sufficient, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) told a press conference Wednesday. As various regions and departments further implement supportive measures for the property sector, and a new property development model gradually takes shape, …

SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday arrived in San Francisco for a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, and to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting. He was received by California Governor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other U.S. representatives at San Francisco International Airport.

XI’AN: A captivating 14-second jump-cut video showing an actress seamlessly changing into various roles from traditional Chinese opera has rapidly gained online attention. With over a million views and tens of thousands of likes, this video has introduced netizens to the rare national intangible cultural heritage known as Han Diao Guangguang. This localized style of Qinqiang Opera from Shaanxi Province, …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Tuesday for a China-U.S. summit meeting and the 30th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in San Francisco at the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden. Xi’s entourage includes Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the …

SHANGHAI: A team of Chinese scientists has confirmed the first live birth of a monkey that contains a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line, which paves the way for scientists to use chimeric primates to study human diseases. The experiment demonstrated that the monkey stem cells, a type of cell able to develop into many …

HAIKOU: Nestled in the picturesque Baishamen Park in Haikou, the capital of south China’s island province of Hainan, “Island Delights” is a handicraft shop with a collection of distinctive Hainan-themed handmade items and artworks, attracting a steady stream of passers-by. The owner of the shop is an American expatriate named Nicki Johnson, who is known as Xie Min among the …

LHASA: For Tibetan children like Ngogyan Tenzin who are from ordinary families, “going to school” was something highly unlikely several decades ago. In old Xizang, where the illiteracy rate exceeded 95 percent among young people, access to education was predominantly limited to the privileged aristocracy. Hailing from Nyemo County, located over 130 km from Lhasa, capital city of southwest China’s …

HOHHOT: The net profit of Chinese dairy giant Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. surged by 16.36 percent to 9.38 billion yuan (about 1.31 billion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters of 2023, the company said in its financial report. It generated revenue of 97.09 billion yuan, up 3.84 percent year on year, during the period. Sales volume growth, material …

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 annual conference of the summit for entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait. The annual conference, which marks the 10th anniversary of the cross-Strait entrepreneurs summit, opened on Tuesday in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province. The summit serves as a …

“The Chinese and American people are both great people, and our friendship is not only a valuable asset but also an important foundation for the development of bilateral relations,” Xi wrote in a letter to Sarah Lande. Xi Jinping (L) presents the granddaughter of his old friend Sarah Lande with a panda doll in Muscatine, a small city in Iowa, …

LHASA: The county of Damxung, meaning “carefully selected pasture” in Tibetan language, is located at the southern foothill of the Nyainqentanglha Range in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, with an average elevation of about 4,200 meters. Each September, 33-year-old villager Yonten and other herders migrate north to the lower winter pastures, to escape from the extreme cold and oxygen deficit …

BEIJING: China has launched the world’s first ultra-high-speed next-generation Internet backbone with a bandwidth of 1,200G bits per second (1.2T), according to a press conference held at the Tsinghua University in Beijing on Monday. The ultra-high-speed next-generation Internet backbone, jointly developed by the Tsinghua University, China Mobile, HUAWEI and CERNET.com Corporation, boasts a total transmission network spanning more than 3,000 …

BEIJING: Over the past year, global observers of China-U.S. relations have experienced a mood swing from a state of optimism to one of concern. In November 2022, the heads of state of the two countries reached inspiring common understandings on bilateral ties in Bali, Indonesia. However, the subsequent U.S. crackdown on Chinese technology, disregard for China’s red line on the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to San Francisco on Tuesday for a high-stakes summit with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, seeking the way forward for the strained ties between the world’s two largest economies. It is a coincidence that San Francisco was the first stop of Xi’s maiden trip to the United States decades ago. In the spring …

By Qian Yongwen, Jie Wenjin and Song Duer Edited by Hou Weili and Cheng Li Credit: Xinjiang Daily Maynur Niyaz is a household name across Xinjiang in northwestern China. A Uygur gynecologist from the People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Maynur has won widespread acclaim and respect for her dedication to patients and pioneering work in screening cervical cancer …

Photo taken on November 1, 2023 shows Maynur Niyaz (C) looks at a patient’s medical image with her team. (Photo by Qin Meihua） By Hou Weili, Qian Yongwen and Song Duer Edited by Cheng Li and Jie Wenjin Credit: Xinjiang Daily Maynur Niyaz, although retired, is still full of vigor and seems always ready to take care of a patient. …

BEIJING/BAODING, Hebei: Two days after the Chinese solar term of the Beginning of Winter, President Xi Jinping came to the areas flooded this summer in Beijing and neighboring Hebei Province, visiting affected people and inspecting post-disaster reconstruction. It was a tightly-scheduled inspection trip. On Friday, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman …

BEIJING: China’s courier sector saw expansion in October, according to a monthly industry index. The State Post Bureau said the monthly express delivery development index came in at 383.5 in October, up 7.1 percent year on year. The sub-index for service quality grew 1.7 percent from a year earlier, the sub-index for development scale picked up 14.4 percent year on …

BEIJING: “Peace and progress between China and the U.S. is in the self-interest of each country and of the world,” former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry A. Kissinger has said. In stark contrast to the previous rhetoric of so-called “decoupling” or “de-risking” from China peddled by some U.S. politicians, recent new trends continue the positive interaction between China and …

LISHUI: The 7th Yunhe Fairy-tale Wooden Toy Festival attracted purchasers from over 30 countries and regions. Yunhe County in east China’s Zhejiang Province is home to more than 1,100 wooden toy manufacturers. Foreign traders visit an exhibition on wooden toy enterprises in Yunhe County, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Nov. 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Xu Yu) Traders visit an exhibition on wooden toy enterprises …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected the reconstruction work at the areas affected by floods in Beijing and Hebei Province on Nov. 10. Xi stressed that Party committees and governments at all levels, as well as relevant parties, should faithfully implement the …

TAIYUAN: For most Chinese consumers, the annual “Double 11” festival, or the Chinese version of Black Friday, means a simple tap of the finger to buy goods at attractive prices and awaiting their arrival. But for deliveryman Feng Haibin, the online shopping spree, which falls on Nov. 11, and days before and after it could be both exhausting and daunting. …

BEIJING: China’s annual output of forest food has exceeded 200 million tonnes, data from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration showed. Forest resources are a key component in ensuring a diversified food supply in China, said Gao Junkai, an official with the administration. China has more than 3.4 billion mu (about 226.7 million hectares) of forests and 8,000 kinds of …

BEIJING: Chinese scientists have revealed the adaptive mechanism of the Yangtze finless porpoise to temperature changes by observing the thickness of its blubber, the thick layer of fat under the skin. The study, conducted by scientists from the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently published in the journal Water Biology and Security. By monitoring four …

SHANGHAI: The balance of loans in China’s Yangtze River Delta region went up 13.1 percent year on year to 63.45 trillion yuan (about 8.84 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of September, official data showed. Of the total, the balance of loans in Chinese yuan stood at 62.41 trillion yuan, rising 13.9 percent year on year, according to the People’s …

BEIJING/BAODING, Hebei: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday visited the areas affected by floods this summer in Beijing and Hebei Province. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for continuous efforts in post-flood reconstruction to ensure that local people could lead comfortable lives and spend a …

KABUL/SHANGHAI: Afghan farmer Sayed Mohammad has been thinking about investing more in his orchard since the newly-harvested pomegranates were shipped to China’s Shanghai for a large exhibition. Mohammad and his fellow villagers were cheered by the debut of Afghanistan’s pomegranates during the sixth China International Import Expo (CIIE), which concluded in east China’s metropolis of Shanghai on Friday. “I have …

XI’AN: A total of 237 tombs from about 2,000 years ago were discovered in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, said local archaeologists. The tombs, from the late Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC), were found on the outskirts of Xianyang City. They were about 11 kilometers from ruins of a Qin kingdom palace. At the site archaeologists also found 13 tombs …

BEIJING/BAODING, Hebei: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday visited the areas affected by floods this summer in Beijing and Hebei Province. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for continuous efforts in post-flood reconstruction to ensure that local people could lead comfortable lives and spend a …

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday made remarks on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming trip to the United States upon invitation for a China-U.S. summit meeting and the 30th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. When commenting on a question related to China’s expectation for the China-U.S. summit meeting, the spokesperson said that at the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden, …

SHANGHAI: Pakistani exhibitor Habib Ur Rehman brought local specialty lamps made of rock salt to the fourth CIIE, fanning a craze among the expo visitors. He sold about 60,000 lamps through the orders harvested at the expo and a fair in Shanghai dedicated to selling CIIE goods. At the 6th CIIE, Habib and his brother Mian Muhammad Zubair have been …

BEIJING: Historical and cultural heritage of southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region is under effective protection, said a white paper released on Friday. The white paper, titled “CPC Policies on the Governance of Xizang in the New Era: Approach and Achievements,” was issued by the State Council Information Office. A total of 4,468 sites of historical or cultural interest of all …

BEIJING: The Xizang Autonomous Region fully guarantees the freedom of religious belief and religious activities are carried out in an orderly manner, said a white paper issued on Friday by China’s State Council Information Office. The region today hosts over 1,700 sites for Tibetan Buddhism activities with approximately 46,000 Buddhist monks and nuns, four mosques with about 12,000 native Muslims, …

BEIJING: China is willing to strengthen cooperation with relevant countries, including the United States, and make positive contributions to the protection of the giant panda and other endangered species, foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Thursday. Wang made the remarks at a regular press briefing when asked to comment on giant pandas Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their male …